a life less ordinary

is such a good film! Cameron Diaz, Ewan McGregor, sososo funny. Such a good end to a really good day. Went to the National Gallery today to see the da Vinci exhibition with my sister, my umma and her friend. I thought my mother was going to orgasm/ hyperventilate she was getting so into it. Like the total nerd I am spent the whole time writing about every single painting/ sketch in the entire exhibition, and there where a lotttt of them.


His sketches are the things which I love the most. The first work of the exhibition was 'Mans head in Cross Section' which shows da Vinci's exploration on anatomy and his desire to depict humans as realistically as possible. It also shows an in depth cross section of the human eye, with three tendons linking it to the brain, the parts of which he believed contained the imagination and the soul. He felt that the eye was the window to the soul, and that imagination was a God given gift, as was that of creativity and that art was full of extra ordinary posssibilities. When viewing the rest of his work you can see that particular care is always taken in the emphasis of the eyes, especially in his painting. In one of his works, 'The Musician', the sitters eyes are dilated at different points to suggest the changing light across his face. The attention to detail is incredible!

Anyway, not wanting to bore you with all that! But it really was very exciting. Got some cool pictures of me, my sister and my umma and went for a pizza in Covent Garden, then had a cheeky look around. My umma was in her element, telling us about when she used to have her stall there and how skint she always was. Overall, it was a totally beaut day. I was going to stay in London and go out with my friend for her birthday, but I have zero money and seriously, seriously have to get my essay done tommorow, and hungover me does not tend to function properly.

Apart from doing my essay tommorow I'm getting my fringe lopped off, finally! A bit scared but I need to get rid of these curtains, not looking goooood! Got so many new books today I'm gunna go to bed really content. Also, my puppy had her op yesterday and she had to have one of those little cone funnel things over her head. She slept in my bed last night and snores SO LOUD. And she likes to sleep under the covers, but as you can imagine a plastic cone around your head is not the easiest thing to move around in, so I had to keep assisting her. She is just too cute.

Absolutely no point in this post apart from to write about my day, but it was a good day and I want to remember it. Off for a night time cuppa!


Bona nit! x